Dina M. Kulik
University of Toronto
20 Papers
19 Citations
Dina M. Kulik is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Meningitis. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications. Previous affiliations of Dina M. Kulik include Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
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Papers
Does This Child Have Appendicitis? A Systematic Review of Clinical Prediction Rules for Children With Acute Abdominal Pain
TL;DR: The PAS and Alvarado scores were the most well validated but neither met the current performance benchmarks, and further research is needed before a CPR for children with suspected appendicitis can be used in routine practice.
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Homeless youth's overwhelming health burden: A review of the literature.
TL;DR: There is an intersection among education deficits, social service insufficiencies, and poor mental and physical health in homeless youth and plenty of work is still required to reduce health inequalities and improve the daily living conditions of Canadian youth living in poverty.
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Interpretation of Cerebrospinal Fluid White Blood Cell Counts in Young Infants With a Traumatic Lumbar Puncture
Todd W. Lyons,Andrea T. Cruz,Stephen B. Freedman,Mark I. Neuman,Fran Balamuth,Rakesh D. Mistry,Prashant Mahajan,Paul L. Aronson,Joanna Thomson,Christopher M. Pruitt,Samir S. Shah,Lise E. Nigrovic,Dina M. Kulik,Pamela J. Okada,Alesia H. Fleming,Joseph L. Arms,Aris Garro,Neil G. Uspal,Amy D. Thompson,Paul Ishimine,Elizabeth R. Alpern,Kendra L. Grether-Jones,Aaron S. Miller,Jeffrey P. Louie,David Schandower,Sarah Curtis,Suzanne M. Schmidt,Stuart Bradin +27 more
TL;DR: Correcting the cerebrospinal fluid WBC count substantially reduced the number of infants with cerebroSpinal fluid pleocytosis while misclassifying only 1 infant with bacterial meningitis of those aged 29 to 60 days.
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Performance of the modified Boston and Philadelphia criteria for invasive bacterial infections
Todd W. Lyons,Aris Garro,Andrea T. Cruz,Stephen B. Freedman,Pamela J. Okada,Prashant Mahajan,Fran Balamuth,Amy D. Thompson,Dina M. Kulik,Neil G. Uspal,Joseph L. Arms,Lise E. Nigrovic +11 more
TL;DR: In a multicenter study of infants 29 to 60 days old, the Boston and Philadelphia criteria misclassified a substantial number of infants with IBIs, including those with bacterial meningitis.
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Imported pediatric malaria at the hospital for sick children, Toronto, Canada: a 16 year review
Andrea Evans,Dina M. Kulik,Anna Banerji,Andrea K. Boggild,Kevin C. Kain,Mohamed Abdelhaleem,Shaun K. Morris +6 more
TL;DR: Appropriate pre-travel advice, insect protection measures, effective chemoprophylaxis is needed to reduce the incidence and improve the management of imported pediatric malaria in returning travelers and immigrant or refugee populations.
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